choice and adaptation._ The wealth of material
available is so great as to be bewildering. As yet there is no common
agreement as to just which stories are best for our purpose, nor is
there any as to where particular stories should be used. The adapters
and story-tellers differ much in their views on these questions. Young
teachers, it is clear, cannot be expected to know this vast field in any
detail. The saving fact is that teachers can hardly make a mistake by
using any story that has awakened their own interest and enthusiasm, and
which, for that reason, they will be able to present in a simple and
striking form. Having in mind, then, the beginning teacher, we make the
following specific suggestions:

1. _Beowulf._ The inexperienced teacher will
find a splendid version, "The Story of
Beowulf," ready-made in Wyche's _Some Great
Stories and How to Tell Them_. To work from the
complete epic, use any of the translations by
Child, Tinker, Gummere, or Hall. "Perhaps it is
not too much to assert . . . that in its lofty
spirit, its vigor, and its sincerity, . . . it
reflects traits which are distinctive of
English-speaking people throughout the world."

2. _King Arthur._ The final source must be Sir
Thomas Malory's _Le Morte D'Arthur_,
represented in the following pages by Nos. 401,
402, and 403. Some passages from Malory should
be read to the class. For suggestions as to
method in handling the stories, see Wyche as
above, where there is a fine brief version. In
_King Arthur and His Knights_, by Mrs. Warren
(Maude Radford), may be found a good working
version of the whole cycle. ". . . In delicacy of
feeling, in reverence for women, in courtesy to
friend and foe, the Arthurian story
foreshadowed much that is gentlest and best in
modern civilization."

3. _Robin Hood._ Go at once to one of the
simple prose versions of the story.
Satisfactory ones are those by Miss Tappan, by
Mrs. Warren, or by Howard Pyle (the shorter
version). As time and opportunity offer read
the simple old ballads which are the source of
the story of "merry" Sherwood. "If ever verse
lashed abuse with a smile, it is this. The sun
shines brightly overhead; it is a good world to